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This Jewish Inspiration Podcast is dedicated to learning, understanding and enhancing our relationship with Hashem by working on improving our G-d given soul traits and aspiring to reflect His holy name each and every day. The goal is for each listener to hear something inspirational with each episode that will enhance their life.
00:00 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Welcome back, my friends, to another episode of the Shema Podcast. You know I always state the name of the podcast, but I really leave off the full name. The name of the podcast is Shema Podcast, the podcast for the perplexed, which is fitting because, as you can tell, I'm always in here bringing questions to you that I am perplexed over, and I once again find myself in such a situation. But of course, I have an amazing rabbi, Rabbi Ari Wolbe, in here to address these for us. So here's my question you know, when we go into pray and I'm talking specifically about during, like Shimon Esrei, when we have that area where we can insert our personal prayers and I take that very seriously I have a Word document that I'm constantly updating and curating, Because when I'm there and I'm praying with this minion, I'm looking around the room at these very holy people and I know my prayers are going to get packaged up with theirs. It's like foolproof. It's like if I called president Biden, probably would not get a return phone call. But let's say I was just real chummy with someone like Mark Zuckerberg and we were talking on the phone and Mark says hey, you know, I need to actually make a phone call to President Biden. So I got to call him. In a little bit I was like I called him. He doesn't ever call me back. And Mark says hey, you know what? I'll just keep you on the line, I'll third party in and we'll do a conference call to President Biden. So that's how I'm looking at it, Like I'm looking in the room. This is such a golden opportunity.
01:43
But the more I think about it, the more I'm getting confused on what I should be praying for. Talking about those personal requests, Because one of the key things we talk a lot about on this podcast is Amunah. Everything is being orchestrated in Hashem and it's perfectly curated for us to grow to the next level in closeness to him. So if that is the case, then technically that means I lack nothing in any moment, and then maybe my prayer should be Hashem, increase my emunah, increase my bit of koan, because I don't understand, maybe, why you're coordinating everything. Maybe I should be praying for what do you want me to learn from this particular situation? But outside of that, it seems like, according to what we say on a regular basis, we say the first line, the Shema, that everything is being orchestrated for the good. So no reason for someone to say I need more Parnassah, or someone that prays for a wife, or someone that prays to get along with their wife, or a health complication, or whatever the problems may be, why pray for that if everything is always orchestrated perfectly?
03:00
Now, of course, you have this contradiction because in the commentary in Bereshit it's talking about how the vegetation hadn't sprouted above the ground because Hashem wanted Adam's prayers, which seems to be that Hashem does want us praying for things. You know and I was contemplating this whole idea too, that why Hashem had to create a world where we were embedded in a body Like why not just put us in here in our neshama? It's way more durable. You know it's June now here in Houston.
03:32
My body doesn't like the hot, humid weather too much. It's so feeble it has to be inside an AC, it gets hungry, it gets tired. It's like not a really good, durable vehicle for maneuvering through our lifetime here. And obviously Hashem put us in such a vehicle that would constantly have needs so that we would have to reach out to him all the time. But again, how do we reconcile this with this idea that we are supposed to live in joy and knowing that everything, in every moment is perfectly orchestrated by Hashem. So you see, my friends, I am perplexed, but I am certain we'll get the answers from the great Rabbi Ari Wolbe.
04:15 - Intro (Announcement)
Welcome to the Shema Podcast, the podcast for the perplexed, where Torah insights intertwined through personal stories, as well as interviews with leading scholars, demonstrate the empowering qualities of Torah and mitzvot. For more great Torah learning through Torch, the Torah Outreach Center of Houston, go to torchweborg. Now to the show.
04:39 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Rabbi, thank you for joining us.
04:41 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Thank you, dan, joining us. Thank you, dan. It's such an honor and a privilege to be sitting here in the legendary Coleman family studio and do another episode with you. It's been some time and I'm so I consider it a tremendous privilege to be back here. I love your introduction because it's so real and it cuts to the core of what prayer really is. You see, most people think mistakenly that prayer is for me to ask Hashem for things, and prayer is not that. It's also that. But that's not what prayer is. Prayer is building our relationship with God. Prayer equals relationship building with God.
05:23
Now, in the process, first is, you said something really beautiful and I love the way you packaged it. You said, when you're praying with a quorum of men, you call them righteous people. I hope I'm one of them, but you said that you feel like your prayer is packaged with them. Our sages tell us that that's why we have a minion, a quorum of 10 adults. For that reason, because if I were to ask you for a big favor, I say, dan, you know, can you help me with this? And that.
05:53
So it's pretty easy for you to say either yes or no. But imagine if I came with 10 people and we all came into your house and we said, dan, we really want you to consider doing this or that. It's going to be very hard for you to say no to 10 people. Right, that's the way we come to the Almighty. We come to the Almighty with our full package of all of our prayers together, united God's like. I can't really say no to this. I mean, it's like if it was one guy sitting at home, you know, praying alone. Okay, I can say, listen, you don't deserve it. No, not happening. But when it's a whole group of people, it's much more difficult for Hashem to say no. What about?
06:31 - Dan Kullman (Host)
those personal inserts we're doing, oh we're going to get there in a second. Okay.
06:35 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Personal prayer, halacha says, is the most important part of our prayer. The most important part of our prayer is our personal prayers. Meaning we have in the Shema Kol Eno we have a special spot where we can stop our regular prayer of what the Anche Knesset, what the men of the Great Assembly prescribed for us and, by the way, the exact number of words. You know? I have a prayer podcast.
07:04 - Dan Kullman (Host)
I was going to bring that up.
07:05 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
I have a prayer podcast and I think it's very important for me to learn about prayer, which is why I have the podcast. It's very selfish, it's I want to learn it. So now my students are coming along the journey of my own personal growth, hopefully in prayer it's excellent, by the way.
07:18 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Oh, thank you, I've been enjoying it so much.
07:20 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
So what people don't understand is they think that words were just added or subtracted into prayers.
07:29
No, no, no, I'm telling you I don't add it a lot into that podcast, but the sources that I'm looking at. Every single blessing that we have, the number of words corresponds to a certain configuration of Hashem's mercy and mitos. It's not just a simple thing. People think like oh, add a word, subtract a word, not a big deal. No, no, no, no. The exact number of words per prayer reflects a certain power in the heavens. So people are like well, this is just. By the way, Even Ashkenaz, sfard, sfaradi, all of the different types of dialects and all the different types of customs, still maintain the same number of words. Interesting, okay, because right now I'm preparing this coming week's episode and the number of words in the specific blessing we're going to talk about is 13. Why? Because of the 13 attributes of mercy. Because with this specific blessing, we need a special assistance from above that the 13 attributes of mercy will inspire for this. But it's not just a random collection of words that our sages, the men of the Great Assembly, instituted in our prayer. It is divinely inspired. These words are perfectly crafted to pull the strings of heaven. That's part of the goal. So if I want to pray at home, that's fine. Which, by the way, the halacha says something magnificent.
09:01
We think prayers is for us. Right, it really is for us. Some people think prayer is for God. I'm doing this for God. No, you're not doing it for God, you're doing it for you. You're doing it for you. God is not sitting there crying oh Dan didn't pray to me today. But the halacha says Rabbi Wolbe, you're incorrect.
09:21
The halacha says that a person should pray in his set seat for every prayer. Even if you're praying alone at home, you should have a set place in your home where you're davening alone that you pray. Why? Because Hashem waits for you in your place of prayer. What does that mean? That means that Hashem loves your prayer so much he waits for it. Hashem is anticipating. Oh, my little Danny boy is going to be coming to me to praise me, like he does every single morning at 6 am. I'm waiting for Him and for this reason, the halacha says that a person should always have a set seat for prayer. If someone sits in your seat, you can sit in a nearby seat, but the idea is that God waits for your prayers. God loves your prayers. So, yeah, our prayers are very, very powerful for ourselves, but really God loves it. Now, god doesn't sit crying. If we didn't pray, we're missing out. God loves it and God will hopefully continue to shower goodness upon us through those prayers. Now, you mentioned that. What do we pray for? What do we pray for.
10:31
So I think it's very important for us to understand that anything that is on our mind we should pray for, just like when you're building a relationship with your spouse, you don't say you know what. There are certain things I'm going to talk about, certain things I'm just not going to share with them. No, no, no. If you're trying to build a loving relationship with your spouse, everything is their business. Your little challenge that you have with a fear, a worry, a concern, a friendship, business deal everything is discussed. Why? Because that's a relationship builder. When you're talking to the almighty, everything gets discussed, yeah, even that little worry. I had a woman once tell me she says, rabbi, god doesn't care about my son's Little League game. I said to her I'm sorry, but you're wrong. God absolutely does care about your son's Little League. God has bigger things to take care of than my son's. No, no, no. God wants to hear, because if you're in a relationship with God, he wants to know everything that's on your mind. And just as a simple thing. You know, recently, you know my mother's a very, very holy woman and she has very powerful prayer and she has told me numerous occasions. You know, don't worry, this is when we were concerned, my daughter was dating. You know, we don't know. She says, don't worry, she's going to find an excellent shidduch, she's going to find an excellent mate. And Baruch Hashem, she did. She's married. She lives in Israel, thank God, and my son as well is engaged now, getting married hopefully next month, and we're really excited.
11:58
I was once having a conversation with my dad and he says do you know that not a day has passed by in my life that I didn't pray for every single one of my children? It's the powerful prayers of my mom, but my dad too, and we see this by the way that the prayers from parents to children is embedded in our daily prayer every day, because every day we pray After we pray the prayer for the Torah. There are three prayers there, but one of them is Hashem. Make the words of your Torah sweet. We don't just say sweet in my mouth, we say sweet in my mouth and in the mouth of my descendants, my children, my grandchildren. That's already a prayer.
12:37
Imagine a five-year-old boy, a girl in school, are reading this prayer. They're already praying for their children. It's already embedded that the sweetness of Torah shouldn't only be for me. The sweetness of Torah should be for my children. So we need to embed in our prayers not only things that we're concerned about, things that we're concerned about for our children and our grandchildren, so that they can have success and that they can have good health. I think it's important for us to pray. I pray for my children every day, for my wife and.
13:08
I For my parents, for my friends, for my students. I pray Hashem. Protect us physically, protect us spiritually, protect us emotionally. You look at the world that's going on around us. We need to pray for protection. Hashem, protect me. You know world that's going on around us. We need to pray for protection. Hashem, protect me. You know there's chaos going on in the world. Look around us, everywhere, total chaos. How do we know that? We're not going to be influenced by negative craziness? We daven for that, we pray for that.
13:38
Things that we know about Now, on a daily basis, we have a concern, we have a worry. Whether it be, how am I going to pay my rent next month? Whether it's going to be, how am I going to pay back a loan? Whether it's going to be, how am I going to close that business deal? How am I going to? You know all of these worries and concerns. Talk about it openly, hashem. I need your help. I need your help Right. I'm seeking your assistance. I don't know where to turn. I can't turn to anyone else. Nobody else can help me. Hashem, only you can help me. Yes, guide me.
14:08 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay, my problem is doesn't that contradict having a moon and a bit of corn? Shouldn't we just say, if I am worried about it, just say I just need more moon and a bit of corn?
14:17 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Pray for our moon and bit of corn.
14:19 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Hashem.
14:20 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Help me, help me. I believe in you 100%. I know that you will guide me. Please send me the success that I need so that I can see your glory. I can see it because many times and I know this many, many times people, when they're trying to get the deal, will promise anything as soon as the deal comes.
14:39
You know, it's like the guy who was circling around New York City trying to find a parking spot says Hashem, please, I got to close this deal. I've got to close this deal. Help me find a parking spot. I'm supposed to be there in four minutes. Please, please, if you find me a spot right now, I'll give 10% to charity immediately. He's circling around the block. He says God, you know what, up at 20%, I'm giving 20% to charity. Just help me find a parking spot. Right in front of him a guy pulls out. He says god, never mind, I got it myself. You know it's like that's the problem.
15:13
The problem is, is that we, we, when we need hashem's help, we ask for it, but then, when the help comes, we're like no, that wasn't god, that was me. And people have a very difficult time and I'm telling you this I've seen it dozens and dozens and dozens of time. People come to me and said, rab, I really need this deal to close. I need you to pray for me. I promise a donation to Torch and then I don't hear from them for six months. I'm like what's going on? Like, oh, it worked out on its own. You know, it's like people don't want to attribute the success they have with the hand of Hashem, and that's the problem. So what prayer really does is prayer brings peace to us. Prayer elevates us to a point where we're able to attain God's goodness.
16:02 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay, but I still feel like there's lack of clarity on should someone pray for peace in the home, parnassus, wherever they feel they're lacking, or should they never pray for that and say just give me more Emunah and Bittachon?
16:15 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Both, 100% both.
16:17
Both okay Look the first three blessings of the Amidah are Emunah and Bittachon. That's what they are, right. We say Elokei Avram, elokei Yitzchak, elokei Yaakov, god of Abraham, god of Isaac, god of Jacob. What are we saying there? We're saying, just like you were a God that was individualized for each of our patriarchs, you're my God too. Melech Ozer, u'mashiach U'magein, you're a God that helps, that assists, that protects. That's a Savior. For who? For me. And then we talk about all of the things. So mech doflim, viro fecholim, in the second prayer, and that God will bring about the resurrection, and God will help those who are downtrodden and those who are imprisoned, and God will help those who are ill. We're putting our full trust in Hashem. What's the next one? Atah Kaddosh, you are holy, v'shimcha Kaddosh, and your name is holy. We're instilling emunah, emunah, emunah. That's the first three blessings. And then we start asking. We say you know what Hashem we have? Emunah rak sal. That's the basis of our amidah.
17:21
But then we have to go into our personal things. Give me wisdom, give me understanding. You know I've had some shortcomings. Please forgive me. God, you see my suffering. Assist me, help me with repentance. What do you mean? Help me with repentance? Repent, you feel bad Repent. What's the big deal? No, no, no, no, no. We need Hashem's help. We need Hashem's assistance. It's not so simple to have clarity Hashem. I'm asking for clarity, hashem. I want to support my family with dignity. I know everything comes from you.
17:50 - Dan Kullman (Host)
I know we have a blessing for that Boreich oleinu Hashem, give me my livelihood, give it to me that it should be a beautiful livelihood, but it seems like when we are saying I lack something, seems like when we are saying I lack something, then we are denying our understanding that every moment is being perfectly orchestrated by Hashem Right because we're human beings.
18:14 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Let me ask you a different question. Let's go out of this for a second.
18:16 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay.
18:22 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
We know that this world is a physical world where we're here to do a job. When someone dies, what happens? They are buried to do a job. When someone dies, what happens? They are buried, they have a funeral. We bury them and we mourn for them. But I don't understand. Aren't they in a better place? We should be dancing. Why are we crying? Why are we sitting in mourning? Now they're going to a world of all. Oh, because we miss them. Because, although we understand in our mind, we understand that God wants their soul back. Oh, it should be a moment of great joy. Yeah, but it's sad because I want to see that person again. I'm never going to see them again.
18:57
And that's to me, physically, as a materialistic human being. It's difficult, it's painful, you understand. As a materialistic human being, it's difficult, it's painful, you understand. That means, notwithstanding the fact that we see a bigger picture, and we know there's a bigger picture. God knows he created us with limitations In a physical body. We're a spiritual, lofty soul locked in a materialistic, lowly body. So there's this conflict that God created in this world, where we're all the way up there, heavenly, with Emunah, with B'tachon, with all of those things, yeah, but we're still locked in a physical body. That's like show me the money I have to pay my bills, hashem, I need your help. I know that I have that Emunah B'tachon, but I need your assistance so that on a physical level, I can meet the two.
19:44
You also mentioned that what's the purpose of prayer? So we said it's a relationship builder. Prayer is a relationship builder between us and Hashem, but also it assists in influencing God's decision. Why do we pray? If someone is ill, if God decided they're going to be ill, are we praying for? Because, if god said, it's like imagine the government gives a decree that this and this is going to happen, right, and now everyone, like there's an uprising, everyone goes to votecom and they vote, they give their opinion, they have this whole thing like no, no, no, the people don't want this, we don't want this, we don't want this. Suddenly government realizes one second, maybe we should re-evaluate this and go the other way. And we see that prayer helped king david and it helped abraham. And when you look throughout the torah, you see how prayer assisted. And god look, look at abraham. What a chutzpah. God says I'm going to just destroy stone sodom and gomorrah right and abraham's like whoa, whoa, whoa.
20:45
What's? Whoa, whoa, whoa? What's if there are 50 righteous? God says you know what, if there are 50 righteous, I'm willing to retract 45, I'm willing 40, 30, 20, 10, right, you wonder, like, what in the world is Abraham doing? Negotiating with God? Because it is negotiable, it is negotiable, it is negotiable. God is in a very real living relationship with each and every one of us and that is something that we can negotiate with the Almighty Negotiate. The more real our relationship is, the more we're able to have that Abrahamic experience. You say God, do you know something? I told you I needed $500,000 a year to live my life and to pay my bills, and you know what I want to up that because I want to give more charity. God, can we negotiate a deal here? I'm going to be more dedicated, but I need you to be more dedicated, god. Can we do a deal here and negotiate? Negotiate with God, be a more dedicated God.
21:43 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Can we do a deal here, right, and negotiate, negotiate with God, but it seems like being very arrogant that I have a finite intelligence. The Almighty has infinite intelligence.
21:52 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
And who created your finite intelligence? The Almighty Okay.
21:56 - Dan Kullman (Host)
So I'm going to sit there and that always confused me at that story with Avraham.
22:02 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Avraham was the greatest, but even still finite versus infinite, and he's's and you see that hashem appreciated abraham's kindness on his creations, on hashem's creations did he change his mind. I mean hashem did, hashem did, but it turns out that there weren't even 10 righteous, which, by the way, is the source to arminia that we mentioned previously okay that when you have a quorum of 10 righteous people, hashem is willing to to change his mind for them okay so if god, heaven forbid, decreed that a calamity should happen to a person.
22:35
But now 10 people come and they pray preemptively refaeno hashem, please heal us from all illness. Right and now, god could be persuaded. You know what? I'm not going to bring that illness on that person, because the people asked for it. The people asked and I'm going to, and that's here's.
22:50
Another thing, though, okay, is that hashem does things to guide us to a certain direction. So I'm constantly like a little pinball machine. Shem is hitting us, hitting, hitting us here, hitting us there, getting us to be in a perfect spot that we need to be in. Through prayer, we can transform who we are to be at that place. So what we do is, in prayer, we're saying Hashem, you don't need to punish me because I already got that lesson. Now you can just give me that success. You're trying to take me through a ropes course so that I'm able to warrant the blessing you're gonna bestow upon me. I already did that ropes course. Look at how I'm progressing here in my prayer. So prayer is also a way for us to demonstrate that we are the person you want us to be and therefore provide us what we're requesting.
23:39 - Dan Kullman (Host)
So I start off in the beginning, talking about, obviously, by the mere fact that he stuck our nishamas in a body that has so many frailties and has so many needs and can't sustain itself on its own, that he put us in a position where we would have to reach out to him just to keep our body sustained correct, right. So he put us in a state of lack, and what you're saying is I'm still trying to reconcile the idea of having a moon and a bit of corn with saying Hashem, I need more of this, I need more of that. It seems to contradict with the moon. How everything is right now, in this moment, is exactly the way Hashem wanted it, out of total love. I still can't get my head around why I would pray for Parnassah, for instance. I pray for a moon and bid a coin. It seems like that'd be contradictory.
24:23 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Because, although Hashem placed you in a specific spot, you're going to negotiate with Hashem and say Hashem, you put me in this position. Okay, a guy loses his job. A guy loses his job and now he's struggling. Now, why did God make him lose his job? We don't know. We may never know, but God never puts us into a situation where we cannot learn from it, grow from it, connect to it and understand Hashem's ways. It means the individual. I can't, but you can. In your situation, hashem can guide you and Hashem does.
25:02
If we're honest enough in our relationship with Hashem, sometimes Hashem can just slap us around and say, hey, hey, hey, you think you're living your own life and you're the provider for your success. No, no, no, you didn't realize that there's a big hand here and I'm going to wake you up. But we're past that. Now we have Emunah, we have knowledge that Hashem runs the world. And why are we asking for things when Hashem decides what it's going to be? Because we say Hashem, I understand that you have your hand here. I understand that you're guiding exactly every dollar that comes to me. But I implore you, I'm concerned.
25:36
I'm worried. I'm frail because I'm a human being. I need your extra guidance here. I'm worried. I'm frail because I'm a human being. I need your extra guidance here. I need your extra assistance so that I don't get into a place of emunah weakness. I don't get into a place of bitachon weakness. I need your help. I need this deal to go through. I need this job, I need this success because you created me frail as a human being, physical, I'm locked up in this materialistic body, but I want to be on a higher level. Send me this success so that I can continue to grow in my connection with you.
26:11 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay.
26:12 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
You're not convinced.
26:13 - Dan Kullman (Host)
I'm still trying to reconcile. Honestly, I've been not praying for Parnassus. I do pray for more Muna, more Bidikon, for guidance on what I should be doing with regard to my business, to know how to balance those activities versus my Torah study. I do ask for clarity on what my actions should be during that day, but it seemed like I don't know, maybe that I shouldn't have to pray for Parnassus.
26:42 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
It's not a futile prayer for one to pray for their livelihood. It's a mandatory prayer because in praying, you're building your relationship with Hashem. By the way, just so that you know, bringing home a livelihood for your family, supporting your family, is a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah in the Torah. So you can ask Hashem, hashem, I need to provide for my family to fulfill the mitzvah that you obligated me. Help me.
27:07 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Right.
27:09 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
If someone is understanding their job in this world properly. Every time they go to work they sit by their desk. They should say for the sake of the glorification of god's name, I'm fulfilling the commandment in the torah to provide a livelihood for my family I will correct myself when I the first two prayers are saying for my wife and daughter.
27:32 - Dan Kullman (Host)
And for my wife, it is, to you know, be a good husband and one of those things is to provide to her. But I tell him it's like, but it all comes from you. I need you to provide to. Those things is to provide to her, but I tell them it's like, but it all comes from you. I need you to provide to me so I can provide to her, make her feel, provide for all her physical needs and give her financial security. But you're saying I should like.
27:50 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
You just said a word which I dislike and despise Financial security. Financial security. I hate that word. Financial. You know what financial?
27:57 - Dan Kullman (Host)
I work in an industry built off this mirage. Okay, so you?
28:01 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
know what financial security means. I think I mentioned it here once before. Financial security means hashem. I want you out of the picture and I want it to be that I have this security needed, that, if all hell breaks loose, I still have enough money to take care of myself, right, okay, we don't want to live in a world of financial security. We want to live in a world of financial security. We want to live in a world of God's security.
28:23
Okay, we want to live in a world where our next paycheck is guaranteed only by Hashem. Now, that does not mean that a person shouldn't ask Hashem, hashem. I want beyond that, so that I can live a comfortable life, so that I can learn more Torah, so that I can live a comfortable life, so that I can learn more Torah, so that I can give more tzedakah, so that I can be kind to other people. There's nothing wrong with asking that, and a person should ask that Hashem. I don't want to be the recipient of charity. I want to be the one who bestows charity on others. So that's a very valuable and holy prayer.
28:57 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay. Well, I don't think you know financial security when you know it all comes from Hashem isn't necessarily saying you want to just be able to remove Hashem from the equation. It's like saying it's like basically having food in your refrigerator In the outside world that's what it is.
29:10 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
It's like you have the catastrophic account of what's going to be. If there's a catastrophe, you need to have money, right, like? I have a friend of mine who's a financial advisor and he's always trying to sell me something Like what's going to be if, well, what's going to be if Don't you believe in Hashem? Don't you believe that Hashem will take care of you? Yeah, but if you're 90 years old, oh, that's right. Hashem doesn't take care of 90-year-olds. Like, come on, he's always trying to sell the way.
29:35
That does not mean that someone buying a life insurance policy or or a medical insurance, that does not mean that they should not do that. They should. Hashem has created that vehicle to assist you. I asked my rabbi about this, particularly regarding life insurance. Is that a lack of bitachon alak? Well, if, if god forbid, it all ends for me, right, well, hashem will take care of my wife and children. Well, if you have a vehicle that's an affordable vehicle for you to protect your children and your wife, why shouldn't you do that? Hashem is bringing you that opportunity. It's not a lack of itzachon, but to rely on it and to say you know, people today have insurance on the insurance and on the insurance. It's because if my insurance fails then I have another insurance to cover it and if that insurance fails I have another insurance to cover it.
30:21
There was a house here in our neighborhood that was unoccupied for about 10 years because a family bought the house and they had an insurance policy on the house, a home insurance and the house flooded. But the home insurance company went bankrupt so they owed on the house less than it would cost to repair it. So they just walked away from it and now it went back to the bank and the bank had to. You know, it was like it was just sitting for over a decade. It was sitting empty, unoccupied, because there was this whole fight and back and forth, because the insurance company went bankrupt and the insurance company didn't have another backup insurance to cover it. So people think like, oh, what's going to be if that's me? That's not the way we live our lives. We can't live our lives with a backup and a backup and a backup, because then we push God further away from our pulse. We want to have Hashem in our pulse every single moment.
31:21 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay.
31:21 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Now you said there were three questions. You only got, we only did one.
31:25 - Dan Kullman (Host)
I don't quite reconcile that, but at least I'm going to walk away with the idea that I do need to be praying for things like Parnassus and success business. I need his help.
31:36 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Let me you love working out right, yes, right. Do you ever try to push yourself a little bit more and you can't do it? You just, you just try the whole purpose of the workout right you can do 50 pounds.
31:46
You want to do 60 pounds, but I can't do 60 pounds. You can pray for that, hashem. Give me the ability to do 60 pounds, to push myself beyond my limits, whatever I think are my limits. We create barriers around ourselves and, with the assistance of Hashem, we can blow right through them. We can ask Hashem for that and we should ask Hashem for that.
32:05 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay is maybe the way to reconcile it is you pray for something, stick with the money thing, parnasa. Help me in my business. Help my business grow Can be bound for Parnasa. So I can give lots of tzedakah, all these things, but then, whatever the outcome is in that moment, be totally cool with it. You know this moment is still perfect, but please help me succeed at greater levels in the future.
32:27 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
To meet those needs. Continue to shower me with your blessings. Now here's. The thing is that we're impatient people, and with our generation it's even worse, because everything is instant. You don't have to wait online at Starbucks. You can order it while you're in your car. By the time you get there, you go to the mobile pickup and your coffee is ready and you don't have to wait for a minute. Same thing as with all the fast food. People order it and then boom, the food is ready.
32:51
People are learning to be impatient and God doesn't work by pre-order. That's not the way it works. It's not that God can't deliver right away. God does deliver right away. But the problem is we become impatient if we don't see the results we want the way we want it, the way we imagine it, as quickly as we want it, and that's not a good thing.
33:11
God doesn't have to work on our schedule. God works on the schedule that he feels is right for us, and it's not always instant is best. You know even the foods we have. We have food, microwave food. Boom, put it in a microwave and it's ready in a minute. It's like it's insane, it's amazing, but it's not good for our Ramunah because we think that anything that isn't instant isn't going to happen, and it's not accurate. It's not accurate the way Hashem works. Hashem has all the time in the world to bring about your success. Oh, but you locked yourself in to imagine that by the end of this period of time, this quarter, this month, I have to be at this and this place. Hashem says no, sweetheart, it doesn't need to be. Then it's going to go on a different schedule because I'm going to teach you something along the way.
33:58 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay, Okay, I do get it now. I think the whole idea is and it did build on this whole idea of being patient is we do have a moon. This moment is perfect. However, we do pray in the future that will continue to give us greater and greater blessings in this area.
34:14 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Right, the biggest fear that most people have is not the fear that right now I don't have, the fear that in a month I don't know if I'm going to have.
34:24
Right, exactly, and people have anxiety about that. People have worry and concern and stress, and to many it can cost them their health, because I don't know what's going to be. Why do you need to know what's going to be Right now? Do you have anything lacking? Did you ever miss a meal? No, hashem always took care of you. You know one of my favorite ideas? It's so amazing. Towards the end of the book of Exodus, the Torah tells us that Moshe asked Hashem show me your glory. Hashem says no, nobody can see my face. You can only see the back of my head. Right, you can only see the back of my head. And the sages ask what do you mean? God doesn't have a head. Moshe doesn't see the front, dasha doesn't see the back. Well, what is really going on? It says that Hashem showed Moshe the back of his tefillin. Come on, give me a break. Hashem doesn't, right.
35:13 - Dan Kullman (Host)
What is going?
35:14 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
on over here is really happening. Our sages, the Hasidic masters, say that what Moshe was asking. He was saying explain to me how this is all going to end. Show me the face meaning the future. Show me the future of how this is going to work out. According to some Kabbalistic views, this Rabbi Akiva was the same Neshama of Moshe Rabbeinu and he was seeing the future vision of what's going to happen to Rabbi Akiva. And he was seeing the future vision of what's going to happen to Rabbi Akiva and he wanted to understand where's the justice in your world? The answer Hashem gave him is the answer that each and every one of us can really be the happiest people in our lives. If we internalize this and that is Hashem says you can only see my back, which means look at the history. Look back and tell me if I ever dropped the ball. Look back and see if I ever let you down Ever, and the answer is unequivocally no. If we look back at all of the times we were worried and that it always worked out better than we even imagined, we suddenly realize you know what. Hashem is trustworthy, but you know what? Imagine this. Imagine a parent. We're all parents, thank God, we're blessed with children and our child is asking a dad what's going to be with that? What's going to be with that? My father used to always ask me. He says have I ever misled you? Have I ever misled you? Has Hashem ever misled us? Our child may not understand why we're doing certain things, but we always have a key in our pocket ready to, you know, for the next surprise for our child. Child doesn't understand One second.
36:47
I remember one time, but by my bar mitzvah, my father and my two older brothers bought me a gift. I really, really wanted a 21 speed bicycle and it was after my bar mitzvah and I don't know, my father was like a little bit avoiding me. My brothers were like being a little cold to me and they obviously they were doing it because they were surprising me, but they didn't want to give off any hints. So you know they pull back the other way, you know the opposite way, and I was like what's going on?
37:18
Everyone's being so weird to me. I mean, just like this was just my bar mitzvah and everyone's being just like cold to me. And then, like one night, like my father calls me out of bed and says you know, I need to talk to you and I was like uh-oh, now he's going to tell me why everyone's been so cold to me and suddenly all the lights turn on and like surprise, and they see this beautiful bike and it was like it was an incredible surprise, but sometimes hashem is. It is preparing us for the next awesome thing that we can't even imagine is going to happen to us.
37:49 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Right.
37:49 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
And we're like Hashem, why are you being so cold to us? And it's just around the corner that those lights are going to go up and the balloons and everything is like it's going to be the greatest surprise in the world, beautiful. So I think that we just need to open up our minds, that there are things that we can't comprehend and, if we look back at my 46 years on earth, there is never a time that God just said you know what. You're on your own here. Goodbye, I'm out. Never, never, once. He always took care of it and I didn't know where it was going to come from. It suddenly came out out of left field. The miracle came.
38:26 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Look, I mean, that is the secret to how I've been, you know, staying in a state of joy as I wake up every morning. Before I pray, I just start thanking Hashem for that very thing. The thing is that he has provided for every need my family's ever had. We have lacked nothing and we have all our needs for today.
38:43 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
We have lacked nothing and we have all our needs for today. If we pray it's happened to me many, many times during the prayer of Modim towards the end of the Amidah I can simply start crying, just start saying thank you, hashem. Thank you For our lives that are in your hands and our soul that is collected by you every single night, and for every single thing that Hashem grants us with thank you and thank you, and thank you and thank you. It's like Hashem is endlessly good to us and we keep on seeing, oh, but I wish I had that and I wish I had that, and we're like we don't realize how good we have it.
39:24
The poorest person in America today is wealthier than the wealthiest king 200 years ago. Anyone who's think about it Medicaid, section 8, housing. The government is giving you Section 8. They're paying for your rent, for your water. You have flowing water in your home.
39:44
The kings needed to have people. You know water schleppers to bring it out to their palace, and they needed to have everything. It was like manual labor. And we just turn on a faucet and boom, you got flowing water. And they give out free phones the Obama phones, you remember those. And they're giving you health insurance, and not only that, they're giving you rides to and from your doctor. You used to have to get a horse and buggy and you'd be in the hot, 95% humidity Houston weather. I mean, it's unbelievable. The things that we have, the luxuries that we have that we don't even realize are luxuries. Tell me, when was the last time you walked someplace, not voluntarily because you had no choice, you had no car, you had no air conditioning and you just walked someplace because you had to go pick up groceries and you didn't have your beautiful air-conditioned car.
40:33 - Dan Kullman (Host)
We're very pampered.
40:34 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Yeah, and that makes it more difficult for us, unless we stop and show our appreciation. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, Hashem. I'm not taking anything for granted okay.
40:44 - Dan Kullman (Host)
The other question I had was, you know, when I was struggling with something and I was speaking to you about it and you said I'm going to talk to a very Asadi to say a prayer for you, which was very kind. My question is this I sort of said to Hashem why do I need someone to speak on my behalf? Why can't I just tell you what I need? I need this problem solved. Why, if a psodic is like, now you're going to say Hashem, oh okay, now he's asking for Dan, now I'm going to do it. I was like I told Hashem, like I find that sort of insulting. Like you know, it seems a little insulting. Why is that?
41:21 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
it's such a great question. I love that, Okay. So here's the thing. Think about it again.
41:27
If you wanted access to someone high profile, you know, individual, you want to meet the prime minister of Israel, right? So you can write a letter to the Knesset that will probably reach nobody. No one will open it, no one will see it. It'll go to some trash bin at the front room of the mail room, you know, after they check that it doesn't have anthrax, you know. So it's like who am I reaching out to? I want to meet bb, I want to meet, uh, president herzog. You know, it's like how are we going to get access to that? But if you know somebody in his cabinet who's a friend of yours, you say you know what? Maybe you can put a good word out. I want to just ask him a question. I want to say hello. I want to get someone who's a righteous, someone who's holy, someone who's dedicating his life to Torah study, who's on a much higher playing field than me. I think it's safe to say that they've got pull with the Almighty, Okay. So now I'll give you an example.
42:23
We all go to righteous scholars. We go to sages, Torah sages, and ask them for a blessing. Now there are certain things that a blessing is not necessary because just go sit down, Like my grandfather. People, the bar mitzvah boys would come ask my grandfather for a blessing. You know the day of the bar mitzvah. My grandfather would ask them what do you want? What do you want a blessing for? Like oh, so that I learn Torah and become a great Torah scholar. He says you want to become a Torah scholar? Just sit down and learn. You become a Torah scholar. You don't need my blessing, Just sit down and learn. Right. But some things you want a blessing because they have a higher power. It's an I mean.
43:00 - Dan Kullman (Host)
I did start this podcast off talking about packaging up my prayers and Shemot and. Ephraim, but I wasn't going to come back to this Part of it's, like I have personal conversations with Shem. Is he not listening to me? I think he is listening to me.
43:16 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
They're shooting bullets and then they're shooting missiles. I'm a simple guy, I'm a bullet type of guy, but there are rabbis that are really holy that their bullets are ballistic missiles. They get your attention in a much greater way.
43:29
So it's in the heavens right. We try to shoot up our prayers to the Almighty in the most powerful way, but there are those who have much better, stronger engines that get there. You know, it's like imagine if I was trying to shoot a rocket up to space to deliver my prayers. It's probably a good idea for me to borrow space on SpaceX of Elon Musk to take it up to space, because he knows what he's doing. He's a little bit more advanced than me in that regard. The sages, in a spiritual sense, have a lot more understanding, connection with the Almighty, and that's why we go to the prayer of the sage-wise elders. Okay, I'll just tell you a quick story. When I was visiting Israel this was, I think, back in 2008, my brother got married in Jerusalem and I came with my children and as soon as we arrived this was a day before the wedding I told my children the most important thing. Of course, we go to the Kotel pray by the Western Wall and it's a very, very powerful prayer. When we pray here in Houston, where do we pray to? We pray towards Jerusalem. Wherever a person is around the world, we pray towards Jerusalem. Wherever a person is around the world, they pray towards Jerusalem. In Israel you pray towards Jerusalem, so the people in Haifa are praying south, the people in Beersheba are praying north, towards Jerusalem. And then in Jerusalem you pray towards the temple and then when we're by the Western Wall, we're by the foot of the temple. That's what our prayers ascend up to heavens.
45:06
So I took my children to the Western Wall and then I took them. I said we need to go see the Gdol Hador, the righteous sage of our generation, the leading Torah scholar, most pious man alive, the leader of the Jewish people, Rebbe Yashiv. I said we need to go. So we go to his neighborhood in Me'er Sha'arim and we go to his. I ask around where's Rabbi Yashiv's shul, where's the synagogue? And we go to the synagogue and he's in the middle of giving a class. He was 96 years old at the time or something like that and you see him teaching Torah like he's a teenager. And you see him teaching Torah like he's a teenager, Vibrant, energy, sharp as a whip, teaching the daily folio of Talmud. It's amazing and I want my children just to see what a righteous Torah scholar is. Just look at him, See with your eyes something that's so holy, so connected.
46:06
So, after the class was over and you're talking about hundreds of people there learning from his class. They'd started the evening service, the matter of the, the arvit, and we dabbled with them and then, after he goes into this, he goes right out the door into a little golf cart. Because these little alleyways, you know, little golf cart, and because there's little alleyways, you know, little golf cart, and they zip closed the plastic guard around the thing and boom, he's off. They take him straight to his doorstep and he walks into his house. He goes into his house. Now, of course, we followed along, my wife and children, and we were like in total amazement, like we're within eight feet of the leading Torah scholar of our generation, like the Moshe Rabbeinu of our generation. It was like this is the most incredible experience and I really wanted to get a blessing for our children.
46:52
So I innocently knock on the door and I say, hey, you know, can we come in and get a blessing? And they say I'm sorry, do you have an appointment? I'm like no, I don't have any appointments. It's like I'm sorry, we can't, we can't really help you. So I knock on the door again. The guy opens the door. He says he's wondering is this guy senile? He says do you have an appointment? I said do you know who I am? There's a little bit of chutzpah. But he says no, who are you?
47:20
I said let me ask you a question who is responsible to teach Torah to the Jewish people in the diaspora? Me or the rabbi? Hey, the leading rabbi of our generation. Who's responsible? I said he's responsible, of course. I said he's the leading rabbi. I said but you know what? I'm the one in Houston, texas, teaching Torah to Jewish people. I think it's proper for the rabbi to give my children a blessing that they grow up as Torah scholars as well, that they grow up in an environment that's enriched with Torah. I said I'm doing his job. I think he should give our children a blessing. He says okay, he opens the door, he says you can come inside. And we got an incredible blessing from the rabbi and it was just an amazing experience to be there and to see, by the way, when we walked in, what do you think he was doing? He wasn't eating dinner.
48:13
He was sitting learning, like completely immersed in Talmud study. Completely immersed and he has thousands of books behind him, completely immersed in Torah study From the second, like wherever he went, he's completely consumed by Torah. And as soon as he got up, the rabbi who was there assisting him says you know, there's this family from Houston, texas. They're teaching Torah to Jewish people. They want a blessing for the children. He gave a blessing. They should have tremendous success. Now does that mean that there's magic up in heaven that just changes everything? No, but it puts another force in heaven that says this rabbi is requesting this goodness, come upon these people and it does something. It does something. It doesn't mean that suddenly magic blue turns into purple.
49:04 - Dan Kullman (Host)
And it doesn't mean that he's not paying attention to my personal prayers when I'm talking to them.
49:09 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
But it's an extra rocket that goes up into the heavens and says, hey, we need your attention here to this.
49:17 - Dan Kullman (Host)
I have a list of people I pray for, like health, but people tell me they need Parnassar or they're looking for a wife, and I think that what Hashem loves and what does the Talmud say.
49:29 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
By the way, the Talmud says don't only go to the righteous, make sure that the blessing of a simpleton shouldn't be pushed aside before you. Right, even a simpleton. Why? Because it has force, it has power even a simpleton.
49:47 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Why? Because it has force, it has power. Okay, and I think that, with the way I reasoned, it was that hashem likes it when we're connected to each other and praying for each other.
49:51 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
And that's precisely it, okay, okay that that makes sense.
49:54 - Dan Kullman (Host)
The last thing we're going a little long here, but you can probably wrap this up very quickly it's segoulas. You know, like we have a friend that spends a lot of shabbos with us and after havdalah I put the wine between his behind his ears and his pockets. I'm like that's like well, just, you do this stuff, you do this and you get pernass. Like enough. I was like hashem, like I do everything you tell me to. You know, I use my money, the money you give me. That you put my care, I use it responsibly, that I really gotta put wine in my slacks, that I take the dry cleaner. Now, you know, I mean, it's like all you hear about these little things. It's just like to me I it bothers me for some reason. It's like is.
50:33 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
you know, there are also people who go to the graves of righteous people and they pray there. Um, you have it all over the world wherever you have righteous jews. We have some righteous Jews who were buried here in Houston from 100 years ago, who wrote books, who learned by the Chavetz Chaim. I'm talking about really special holy people and we go every year before Rosh Hashanah, yom Kippur, we go to their grave and we pray. So we say you know, be a representative of our prayers in front of the Almighty. You're already there and they want that right, what Right. So what we're doing with the segulas is also particularly with things like you're saying with the wine is because here we did something which is a mitzvah. What is a mitzvah? A mitzvah sanctifying God's name? We're saying Hashem.
51:20 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Is this a mitzvah to take the wine off the head? It's not a mitzvah.
51:23 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
It's a segula, an omen, a special omen. Can a person have livelihood without it? Yes. Can a person have tremendous success in every area of life without it? Yes. But what we're trying to do is associate our blessing with a mitzvah Hashem. Here's a mitzvah. Right, I'm going to dip my fingers into this wine. Again, this is totally a.
51:48
Segulas are a very, very powerful, special thing. It's a special thing Now. Some people believe in it and then it has power. Some people don't believe it. It has no power. It's like the Talmud says one who doesn't believe in Ein Hara, in the evil eye, doesn't have the evil eye. Someone who believes in it has the blessing of it as well. You understand. So look, if to you it seems like this is crazy, this is a little bit, you know, taking it too far. That's fine, that's fine. But there are those who really believe in these special you know omens and special opportunities. So it's another little channel that you can open up for that blessing to flow. That does not mean that it will always work exactly the way you want it. I'll give you another example Now.
52:39
My father might listen to this episode and say this is total nonsense, because the Torah says Tamim tieh, mashem alokecho, you should be pure and innocent with my Torah and don't make it into all of these omens and eejee-beejee things and then just leave it alone. It's all nonsense, that's fine. That's one school of thought. There's another that says you know, eating from the food that the rabbi ate from, like the Hasidic customs, right, people will go if they can get one drop of a grape that their rabbi ate from. The rabbi took a bite from a grape and then he gives out grapes to everyone and throws apples out. They throw it out to all the Hasidim, right, so that they can have a piece from what the rabbi had. Because his holiness and his connection with the Almighty, I want a piece of it. I want to be associated with that goodness, with that greatness.
53:26
So now some people connect to it and some people. For them it's a very, very meaningful addition to their service of hashem and for some people it just doesn't connect. That's fine. It doesn't make them any less of a jew, it doesn't make them any less connected. But I will say this is something to be very, very careful about. Is that like anything else, it needs balance. Some people put all of their eggs in the basket.
53:53
Well, I went to the rabbi's tombstone, to his gravesite, and nothing happened. And I prayed to the rabbi. Some people pray to these omens and pray to these sages as if they are the ones who give them the success, and that's a big, big, big mistake. They are, I would say, conduits through which we're asking them to represent us in front of the Almighty. I'm not standing in front of the Holy Throne of the Almighty, but they are. So hopefully this mitzvah or this individual who has passed on can represent me in the greatest way possible, but not, god forbid, to ever pray to the deceased or to think that these omens are an action that's direct. It's again using it as a tool, as a vehicle through which we're hoping that more blessing will be showered down upon us.
54:44 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay. It is an act that is still instilling in us, just like with the washing of the hands that all comes from hashem. You know, if someone does segula for pranasa, right, they're still like again. They're starting their week after have a dollar now to many of these things.
54:58 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
There are deep, deep, deep kabbalistic roots. There are some very, very deep Kabbalistic roots to it.
55:04
But again there's a benefit to just living a simple life. Halacha tells us. This is very, very, very interesting when you learn Halacha. Halacha is telling you A, b, c, d, this is the way you live your life and this is the way you act, and this is what you do and this is how you wash your hands, this is the way you cut the challah and this is, et cetera, et cetera. It's very, very detailed and it's completely immersed with Kabbalistic teachings and with Midrashic teachings and with Talmudic teachings, because it's all part of the essence of the way in which we act. So washing our hands is a very simple thing that we do, but when you start digging a little bit deeper into the sources of everything, it has tremendous, tremendous roots in Kabbalistic teachings of how it's done, why it's done, and so we can take a mundane act and elevate it to a whole new level the deeper we get into it.
56:03
So the problem is sometimes people just jump. For example, you know we have the counting of the Omer, so it's a biblical commandment to count the Omer every day of these 49 days. Today's the 40th day of the Omer, so we're counting up to 49 days. Now there's a whole Kabbalistic realm to it, which is all of the days, you know, depending on which week it is, depending which day of the week it is, has different powers and different links, and there are some people who are so busy with that they're not busy with the counting, they're busy with the so this and this and that. It's like each one of the all of the different hidden secrets of it, but not in the actual counting of it. The most important part is the counting. Sometimes, because of the dressing, people are not eating the healthy food. You understand Right, and that's window dressing. It's an add-on to the depths. Once you're past the basic level, counting the Omer, remembering that you're fulfilling a biblical commandment to count the Omer from Pesach to Shavuot. That's number one, that's priority. Let's never forget the basics.
57:10
Now you want to add to it, you can add to it and you can add to it it's an endless addition to it, to every mitzvah, but not to make the custom and not to make the omen or the segula into the essence. That's not the essence of it, it's an add-on to it. It's a very beautiful thing and sometimes a very meaningful.
57:29 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Okay.
57:30 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
But it's not the essence of it all.
57:32 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Gotcha. Okay, thank you very much.
57:35 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Dan, it's an absolute privilege. I just want to give you a blessing. You should see the hand of Hashem in every single thing that you do. You're such a pure, beautiful person. Hashem should continue to shower you with unbelievable blessing that you should have, not only financially, not only spiritually, but emotionally, everything that you need to be the greatest person that Hashem imagines you to be and created you to be and created you to be, but also to be able to provide for your wife, for your family, for your community all the things. Hashem should fulfill the wishes of your heart speedily. God willing, we'll be in Jerusalem in our rebuilt temple, but for the challenges that we face, hashem should fulfill all of your needs 100%. He should overflow. It shouldn't just be enough. It should be a magnificent abundance of blessing every day of your life. Amen.
58:31 - Dan Kullman (Host)
Amen. Thank you so much, Rabbi.
58:33 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Thank you so much for having me.
58:34 - Dan Kullman (Host)
I appreciate you so much, and so does the audience, and for those of you who have not tuned in, I have benefited a great deal from your new prayer podcast that I'm very tied into, so check it out.
58:46 - Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Guest)
Thank you. Thank you so much and I look forward to many more episodes together Awesome.
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